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Why allow pages to disable copy & paste at all?

• musicale 3y ago
  It's kind of a misfeature, but the non-evil idea was probably to provide hooks for customizing copy and paste (or other standard command functionality) in beneficial ways, for example seamlessly copying and pasting custom data formats between web apps, or between web and desktop apps. It is a law of the web that any potentially beneficial browser feature will immediately be (mis)used in an abusive, user-hostile manner.
• Spivak 3y ago
  It's not about disabling it, it's about intercepting it by telling the browser that you're directly handling paste events and then doing nothing. The extensions just forces the browser default handler.